Hanslope
Major Settlement in the Parish of Hanslope
Historical Forms
- Hammescle 1086 DB
- (H)anslepe 1086 DB
- Hamslap(e) 1086 DB 1189 P 1208 Fees20 1211,1212 Fines 1217 Pat 1227 1237 Fees 1241,1247 Ass 1255 For 1262 Ass 1281 Ipm 1292 1306 Cl 1316 FA 1317 Pat 1398 Ipm
- Hamesclapa 1159 P
- Hamesclaye 1201 Fines
- Hameslap(e) 1175 P 1217 Pat 1246 Gross 1304 Ipm
- Haunslape 1227 Ass
- Hampslep 1231 FF
- Hamslepe 1235 Fees469 1241 Ass
- Hamslop 1247 Ass
- Hamsesclap 1250 Fees
- Hampslap(e) 1302 FA 1315 Cl 1326 Pat 1327 Fine 1344 Pat 1346 FA 1371 Cl 1423 ADii 1434,1447 Pat
- Hamslapp 1257 Ipm
- Hameslappe 1262 Ass
- Haunslep 1262 Ass
- Hampeslape 1333 Cl
- Hampslak 1370 Cl
- Hanneslape 1415 Pat 1535 VE
- Hanslep 1480 IpmR 1509 LP
- Hanslope 1488 ADv 1509 LP
- Hanslape 1496 Pat 1509 LP
- Auncelope, Anslope 1532 LP
- Hans(e)loppe 1566 ADvi Eliz ChancP
- Hanslapp 1626 Vern
Etymology
The second element is clearly slæpe. The main part of the village is on the flat, with a road leading straight up the hill to the church from the village (Harman). The first would seem to be a pers. name. The forms suggest the name Hāma , familiar in OE heroic poetry, known to be usual in the 8th and 9th cents., and compounded in the place-name Havant (Hants), OE æt Haman funtan , in which case the full form of the OE name was Hāmanslǣpe .
The later forms show either development of epenthetic p between m and s or assimilation of labial m to the dental s .